There was a moderate flight of birds today. There were decent numbers of red-breasted mergansers, but they were out pretty far making it difficult to look for different birds amongst them. There was one black scoter in a close flock. The bird of note today was a 1st cycle black-legged kittiwake. It flew by alone heading west. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County November 19, 2011, 700-900 Weather- partly cloudy, Winds- SW 5-10 Temp- 41-43 F, Barometer- 30.17-30.16. Humidity-56-57, Dew point- 27-30 Waves- 2-3 feet, Flight direction- west BLACK SCOTER 1 Bufflehead 6 Common merganser 6 Red-breasted merganser 762 Common loon 3 Horned grebe 2 Double-crested cormorant 17 Bonaparte's gull 136 Ring-billed gull 140 Herring gull 12 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE 1 imm. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]